Four categories · 11 hotels

Hotels worth
a detour, sorted
by what makes
them strange

Art hotels, capsule hotels, casino hotels, ice hotels. Every entry is written in plain prose with no ratings, no reviews and nothing to sell. Read it, then go and book somewhere yourself.

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The index

Four categories, kept deliberately short

Each category holds only the properties that make it legible. Where the real supply is thin, the list is thin.

Where to start

Three that explain the whole idea

If you read nothing else here, read these. A palace that keeps the upper hand over its hotel, a cabin room engineered to the millimetre, and a building with a lifespan of exactly one winter.

  • Art Hotels

    Aman Venice

    A palace that keeps the upper hand

    Venice, Italy

  • Capsule Hotels

    Hotel MyCUBE Kochi

    Cabins with a door that closes

    Kochi, Japan

  • Ice Hotels

    SnowCastle of Kemi

    A building with a lifespan of one winter

    Kemi, Finland

Every entry here was chosen because the property does something specific and does it clearly. Descriptions stay factual and general. Where a detail changes with the season or the year, we say so rather than guess.

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